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President Taft’s
13,000 Mile
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fMUWUBRESTDENT william
I I HOWARD TAFT, backed
I mM I up by 326 pounds of joy-
| _ * | ful smiles is to-day speed-
ing westward on a 13,000-
mlle tour of the United
States.
The trip Is over two
months In duration, start-
ing September IS from
Boston and ending with
the president's arrival in
Washington for the winter, on No-
vember 21.
It 1b the longest journey through
the length and breadth ol' the United
States ever undertaken by an Amer-
ican executive while in office, and the
trip is notable In presidential annals.
While ex-President Theodore Roose-
velt is smashing precedents and set-
ting new onus in Africa by riding on
the cowcatchers of engines, etc., nis
successor is getting close to the soil
In his own environment.
' Riding with the en
glneer, getting his
picture taken leaning
from the cab of the
engine almost in the
act of swabbing the
grease from the num-
bers on the side of
the vehicle, stretch-
ing over the observa-
tion platform t o
shake hands with
(Countrymen at towns
where two-minute
stops are billed, shout-
ing a cheery “howdy"
as the special train
pulls out of the small
town station, "Big
Dill" Taft is racing
from coast to coast
and back again.
He was scheduled
to touch the extreme
northern boundary of
the country and upon
the occasion, October
16, when it was pre-
arranged that he
should (shake hands
with President Diaz
of Mexico, and there-
by cement relations
between these nation-
al neighbors, he was
slated to set foot on
the south boundary.
He started from
Beverly, Mass., which
Is on the east coast of
the United States and
bis program called for
a visit of several days
at Seattle and other
points on the Pacific coast which U
the west boundary of the union. Thus
It was predestined that the executive
should set foot on the four extreme
lines which enclose the domain
which selected him as Its head.
The personnel of the president’s
traveling party besides the president,
consists of John Mays Hammond,
president of the Dengue of Republi-
can Clubs; Cnpt. Archibald W. Ilutt,
military aide; Wendell W. Mlachler,
assistant secretary; Dr. J. J. Richard
son of Washington, D.' C.; James
Sloan, Jr., and L. CT Wheeler of the
secret service and Maj, Arthur
Brooks, the president’s confidential
messenger. Six newspaper men ac-
company the president throughout
the entire trip. Tho party travels in
two private cars attached ror tho
greater part of the time to regular
trains. Besides the regular executive affairs,
President Taft !h preparing his message to con-
gress and u small part of each day is spent in
either making memoranda or mental notes on
points upon which he will elucidate In the regular
communication due In December,
Secretary Carpenter, the man who handles
much of the president’s business of national im-
portance, has packed away in his grips severs'
hundred pounds of programs which are to be car-
ried out at the various points at which tho presi-
dent Is scheduled to stop and make a few re-
marks.
There Is scarcely a state in the union through
which the president does not pees. Every big
•Ity In the country with only a few exceptions,
will be Invaded In accordance with tho presiden-
tial program.
Leaving Boston, after motoring into tho city or
highbrows, Mr. Tnft mid his two special trains de-
parted westward for Chicago, arriving In the
windy city tho following day. Party chiefs there
received him with the sort of glad hand that Ulil
sago knows how to extend. Taft's palm turned U|s
wurd in resuonsn to the cordial greeting, alter
Kej> Numbers Shots President's Course:
sept.
. S«-pt
Leaves—neverly, Hun
1—-Homos, Hun......
0—Chicago, 111..........Sept
*■—-Mndlmin, Mllivnukr-.....
----l»ortnae, Wit. Sept 17
4— WI«o««, Minn........Sept. 17
5— illnuenpolla trad St.
....Paul, Mian..Sept. 1S-1S
Min Molava, la........Sept. 30
- f-OSMlu, Seb..........Sept.
hnirr. Col.........Sept.
d—Wolhnrst. Col........Sept.
is-rui-blii, Col...........Sept.
11—OlMWMl Span, Col...Sept.
—Mont roue. Col.........Sept.
IS—Salt l.alte City, Utah.. Sept.
IS—.Pocatello, Idaho.....Sept.
Id—Butte, Mont .........Sept.
IB—Helena, Moat.........Sept.
!•—Spokane, With.......Sept.
17—North Yakima........Sept.
IS. Beattie. Sept. SO-SO and Oct
lO—Portland, Ore. . . .
30— Sacramento, Cal.
31— Onkluod. Cal.....
—Uerkrlry, Cal....
3d—San Francises. . . .
33—Yooetulle Valley..
—Fresno, Cal....
3d—l.oit Angeles, Cnl.
30—Urond Canyon.......
US Albuquerque, IS. MCX..OM.
37—FI Paso, Tex..........Oet.
Meets President Dlaa of Mexleo at
30
31
33
33
33
33
30
30
37
37
3S
3»
1
Oct. 3-3
.....Oet. 4
.....Oet. !>
.....Oet. n
... Oet. O
Oet. O-7-H-B
....Oet. 10
. .Oet. 11-13
Oet. 14
15
VS
FI Paso ...............Oet. 10
3S—Sun Antonio, Tex.....Oet. 17
—Fort bam Houston, Tex Oet. IS
SCO—Corpus t hrlotl.........Oet. IS
—Ilrolher'n ranch at Corpus
Christ I........Oet. 10-30-31-33
30— Houston. Tex ........Oet. 33
31— Dallas. Tex.........Oet. 33-34
33— St. I.outs, Mo..........Oet. 311
—Hast St. lamia, III.....Oet. .30
—Cape Ulrardeau, Mo. . Oet. 30
33— Cairo. Ill..............Oel. 30
34— lllekmaa, Ky..........Oet. 30
35— Memphis, Teun .......Oel. 37
SO—Helena. Ark...........Oel. 37
37—Vleksborir. Mlaa.......Oet. 3H
—Baton Itouae, l.a......Oct. 30
lb—lien Orleans, l.a.......
........Oet. 30-31—Nov. 1
00—Jneksuu, Miss.........Nov. 1
—Coluiubu*, Mias.......Nov. 3
40— Birmingham, Ala.....Nov. 3-3
41— Macon, tin............Nov. 4
43—Savannah. On ........Nov. 4
43— Charleston, S. C........Nov. 5
44— Augusts, Ua........Nov. 0-7
43—Columbia, S. C........Nov. S
4«—Wilmington. N. C.....Nov. II
47—Richmond, Vu....... Nov. 0
—1Washington, II. C.....Nov. 10
—Middletown. Conn.....Nov. 11
—Norfolk, Vn.........Nov. 10
—Hampton. Va..........Nov. 3V
—'Washington. .11. C.....Nov. 31
Tour
lug tho first days of tho
tour. That great big 226
pound Taft, smile, which la
the only one of its kind in
captivity, was the greet-
ing which met tho saluta-
tions from close to the
soil.
Secretary of tho luterlor
Ballinger will accompany
tho president through tho
i’actfio northwest. Secretary of War
Dickinson will Join tho party at El
Paso, Texas, and make the remaining
trip back to Washington. Secretary
Nagel of the department of commerce
and labor will bo a member of the
party on the trip down the Mississip-
pi river. During his stny In certain
of the states the president probably
will have as guests on his train the
senators of those commonwealths.
He expected to meet Senator Cum-
mins who has been reported of late
us being boomed for the presidency
in 1912. at Des Moines. Senator Dol-
liver also was to be at Des Moines.
San Antonio, Texas will add Its wel-
come to Presldept Diaz at El Paso in
the meeting of the president of the
Latin republic with President Tuft, on
October 16, through a committee of
100 citizens and members of tho in-
ternational club. If President Dlax
decides to return to Mei.tco City via
San Antonio, a special, train will be
plnceil at his disposal and he and his
staff will bo given possession of the
International club’s home. A special
committee of 25 conveyed this wel-
come and invitation to President Dina
in Mexico City. Presldont Taft was
"/-/oyvoY, en if
r/ve Mtnurea rose
a Gtctpnon
f CuMBtnu rttro me Cam
Mg* o’clock by .tho
A Dash
to m»
Mttn/to Pucci
which ho was down on the bookings to "do" Mad-
ison, Portage nnd Milwaukee, WIs., In a single day
on hlB way to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.
Thence the program celled lor a southern trip
to Dos Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Nob., with a
long Jump to Denver, Col., which city n little over
a year ago wasn't big enough to hold all the Dem-
ocrats who wanted William Jennings Bryan ror
the Job Mr. Taft now has.
Thence to Wolhurst, Pueblo, Olenwood Springs
and Moutroiio, Pol. From there the president was
routed to Halt Lake City, Utah, Pocatello, Idaho.
Ilutte and Helena, kjonl., Spokane, North Yakima
and Seattle, Wash.
The tine of travel from Hpokane extends south-
ward along the Pacific coast, tho southern states
being next to recelva the president. At El Paso,
Texas, one of the most notnblu events of the tour
will occur when on the sixteenth day of October
President DIbr of Mexico and Presldont Tart of
the United Slates, will shake hands In s mutual
harmony carnival.
Along lhe northern line of travel "Oh, you Bill
loft I" became a slogan, nnd "Howdy 11111" whs
another favorite expression of the multitude dur-
Pntnoenr Diaz,
oa Mex/coj sv/roM
TAercv/LLAfeer
made honorary
presideut and
member for life
of the club, as
are President Di-
az and former
President Roose-
velt, and a special
committee will
present engrossed
certificates o f
election to him
before his visit.
Arriving at 8L
Louis from Texas
at 7:27 a. in.,
Monday. October
25, President Taft
will bo outer-
tallied at break-
fast at 8:30
o'clock by,tho Commercial club at the 8t. Louis ho-
tel. At 11 a. m. ho will make nn address In the
Coliseum, which holds 15,000 people.
At 2 p. tn. the president will be the guest of
Business Men’s League at luncheon, In the Jeffer-
son hotel, llo will not speak at this function, but
will hurry to East at. Louis (III.), to attend tho ded-
ication of u government building there nt 4 p. tn.
Tho president will return to Bt. Louis In time to
sail for Now Orlnnns on tho •steamboat Mississippi
at 0 p. tr. Arriving at Cape Girardeau, Mo., at tl
a. in., October 20, the president will bo routed out
of Led to make an address from the upper deck of
the seamboat to the people gathered on the wharf.
Leaving Capo Girardeau at 7 a. in., there will be
n five hour run to Cnlro, III., where at noon Mr.
Taft will make a second address from tho boat.
Leaving Culro nt 1 o'clock tho next stop Is sched-
uled at Hiukmsn, Ky., at 4 p. iu., where the third
address from the dock of tho Mississippi will be
made. Lcnvlng Hickman at 5 p. tn. an all night run
will bring tho party tn Memphis, Tenlt., at 8 o'clock
on the morning of Wednesday, October 37.
At Memphis the president will leave tbs steamer
nnd be entertained In the city for lour hours, ma-
king an uddresii while there. Helena, Ark., will be
reached at 6 p. m. on the 27th, and an nddruss from
the boat is scheduled. On Thursday, October 2M,
the only stop Is scheduled nt Vtoksburg, where the
president’s party arrives at 4 p iu.
LIQUOR OEALEHS CAUGHT
STATE OFFICERS POSE AS DEAL-
ERS AND SECURE EVIDENCE
IIIFEIIIITEIDEIT STONE IS IEBI BUST
s Personally Supervising E) foreement
In Oklahoma City—Wholesale Deal-
ers are Arreeted on State
Warrants
Oklahoma City. After a two weeks’
Investlautoa oi law enforcement con-
ditions in different sections oi Okla-
homa S. \\. Stone, superintendent of
the stale agency, reached Oklahoma
City Wednesday and spent the day in
conference with enforcement officers
who are working in the city.
When asked for a statement regard-
ing conditions over the state, Mr. Bone
*ald: “There is a growing sentiment
favoring a strict enforcement of the
law. and conditions are getting better
uvery day. After reaching every sec-
tion in the state I find only a few loac
tlona where there is not a vigorous
c.'impuln to i loin- all Joints and stop
bootlegging. Local conditions in somo
towns make it hard for th» officers
to drive the bootleggers oat of busi-
ness, but th enforcement department
of the slate Intends to see that the
law Is not a dead letter, but is strict-
ly enforced.
"After meeting local officers^ and
many citizens, I a.m convinced that on-
forcMinen't conditions ilti Oklahoma
City are 50 per cent better than they
were sixty days ago. The bootleggers
und wholesalers are on the run and
we will make this a dry town and
keep It that way.”
The attention of some of the en-
iforcemcnt officers has 'been turned
ta wholesalers who, it is claimed have
been furnishing joints und bootlcgera
with their supply of liquor. By cut-
ting off the supply, the officers bo
lieved they would be able to moro
effectively clean up. the city and plans
were immediately made to bring tho
whloosalers to Justice.
After renting u room formerly occu-
pied as a Joint, B.-J. Waugh, state
enforcement officer, sent two of his
secret deputies to purohuso ft Htock
of liquor. Tills stock soon arrived
and later the deputies returned with
receipts for the payment of the goods
boupfilt from Julius Etnmpf, D. M.
Blunk and A. 8. Jones. Information
was filed against these men and they
were later arrested on a state war-
rant charging them with wholesaling
liquor.
None Pay Income Tax.
Guthrie Oklu.—Disregarding the fact
that the assessing a tax on nil in-
comes In excess of 83,500 per annum
has boon on tho statute books of Ok-
lahoma since May 26, 1908, a Inrge
number of the tax assessors this year
failed to milks a list of this kind of
tax payers. The assessors are required
under U\i n w to Inquire of eann per-
son assessed ns to whether his In-
come for the year euding Juno doth
preceding (ho tlmo the asiessment,
w-.u taken exceeded $3,500 and if so
the amount, of tills excess. If Him
taxpayer answered in the affirmative
he shall be furnish* d a blank by tho
asai.a.-or i p in which ho ski ) st.ita
under oath the amount of his (Excess
Income and tills hluuk shall bo for-
warded by th" assessor direct, to tho
state auditor.
A. D. Ilunibnrgcr, Special tax
clerk la the noudllor's office tins sent
out circulars lo each of the asses-
sors In which tho auditor calls atten-
tion of the assessors to their duty and
has already received replies.
Diplomacy Is a high-toned way Of
saying: “Don’t you think ws bad b«0
ter ogres with me?”
State Officer Resigns
Guthrie, Oklu.—J. E. Wcodworth,
statistician of the hoard of arlculture,
who hns held Hint position since its
creation In July 1905, presented his re-
bigniitloii lo tin' board, effect I vi Sept
20. and wll become secretary of tho
Statu Cup'tal Printing Uo. He Imh
made an exceptionally line record for
the statistical department of the board,
working against great difficulties, und
Is the only republican to hoi I over
through the democratic administration.
Sspulpa Water Supply Threatened
Bupulpa. Okla.— Mayor McDougal
has Issued an order stopping work on
th*- city paving contracts which In-
volve about 1300,000 and the employ-
ment of 400 men, because of n lack of
water. The rotninisslotier says that
unless It rains within the next ton
days the wide rsupply will he entire-
ly gone.
Good cars make short miles.
Idfs is s motor car that end3 la »
break-down.
If there were no joy rides there
mould be no police traps.
Lend your car to another .the repair
bill will come home to yourself.
Cats denote bad luck except whes
It be a black one that you dream of.
tbva this Is lucky. To dream of cattle
denotes riches to come, while to
dream of s sheep shows good luck,
will attend you.
To dream of a donkey denotes bad
lack, ta be carried by one mesas
scorn, to hold one Is much toll, and ta
dream you are seating one. you’ll
mourn.
To dream of angels brings Joy.
ants denote good trade, apples denoto
a wedding, sour ones denoting 'bad
luck, sweet ones prosperity iad good
luck.
St yon dream you r.re crossing a
bridge aa elevation in life is in store
for you; or if the bridge be broken,
then difficulty and otrlfe Ho before
you.
1 To dream of birds' nests or oggo
shows good luck will come to you. but
If you dream you are eating eggs,
then sorrow Is in atoro for you.
IN THE REALM OP BOOKS.
Mows and Comment About the Latest
In Literature.
1 "The Making of Bobby Burnlt,' one
of tho latest Bobbs-MerrlU produo
Mens, ia a otory that "caught on" In-
stantly and in its creation the author,
George Randolph Chester, used rare
Judgment end ability in compounding'
well nigh perfectly the throe
elements of wisdom, humor and love.
Each la present In the story In pro
eUely tho right proportion, and in Urn
skillful hands of the author the three
have been mixed and stirred, and
Venter, to lightness, a ad finally brows-
ed to a delicious crisp.
Bobby Burnit himself Is s chop
whom one llkos the moment that one
■hakes him by the hand. At what,
over game Bobby playa he playa fairly
and squarely; he is a good loser and
when luck is with him is generous to
the men who has lost. No mors likable
young man haa appeared Jn tho pages
of American fiction In a Tory Kmg
time.
l Tho story Is American to ths cor#.
Both tho rapidity and the ease with
which immense deals are made, Bob-
by's equal capacity tor unbroken Idle-
ness and tor constant toll, the largo
horizon, tho teeming possibilities In
commerce that are suggested on thq
aide nnd in the background—all' thosa
things ere truly end typically Arnsrl-
san. Though It ta concerned In n way
almost constantly with th# making of
•Roney, It Is by no means sordid, tor
money-making la but Its sub-theme, tho
roal one being the making of a man.
To dream of n cloudy mornlni
Shows 111 luck and grief, but to see t
bright sunny morn In your dremn will
bring you good- news.
Clear water seen In n dream denotoi
good newe, .Just as dirty water de
notes 111 luck to the dreamer.
East Side School Opens.
Olarentnra, Okla.—The Eastern Uni-
versity school began Its Initial session
hern Wednesday with Rood attendance.
The hlKlt school hulldlnx hud heen do-
nated for tho purpose by tho Clure-
inore district, school. The new state
liullditiR. will he ready for occupancy
t.-sily In tin- year, when tho soho.il wll
move into Its own home. The new
sellout has a site of forty1 acres, and
when completed will bo one of the
finest In the state.
Mrr. Roosevelt Will Return.
Purls.—-Contrary to publlsud re-
ports, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will
not rnntuln In Europe until her hus-
band returns from Africa. .Mrs. House
wit will leave I'urls with her children
seen. roIiir lo Rwltrrrland, where slot
will slay for u short lime, Hu non to
(Inly. Hie will sail from Naples to
Genoa In a few weeks for America.
Nico light broad and flaky biscuits
can be mods from
CHOCTAW FLOUR
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are sura to have the best
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